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We have 30 objects tagged film poster.

Space-like design with bubble lettering: FILMTAGE 2006.

Poster, Cinema Afrika Filmtage (African Film Festival), 2006
screenprint on white wove paper.
Gift of Ralph Schraivogel.
2007-15-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

This Soviet film poster for the German 1927 movie "Die Symphonie der Grossstadt" ["Symphony of a Metropolis"], depicts a mechanical man composed of a head with a movie camera for one eye, a watch on his neck, with one arm typing on a typewriter and the other arm in the form of a pen. This figure is placed in front of a flat and tilted skyscraper. The title of the film, in red, runs diagonally along the lower edge while the movie credits in white parallel the diagonal building.

Poster, Symphony of a Big City, 1928
lithograph on off-white wove paper.
Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council and General Acquisitions....
2008-1-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On a blue background, a green, orange, blue and white rocket blasts upward from a large cuped red and blue hand, leaving clouds of yellow and orange smoke. Text in white, upper left: "el dominio del fuego, film soviético en colores y cinemascope, dir: daniil jrabrowitski/con: kirill lavrov [the domain of fire, soviet film in color and cinemascope, direction:daniil jrabowitski/with kirill lavrov]; signed and dated on plate lower left corner: "luis vega 72".

Poster, El Dominio del Fuego (The Taming of Fire), 1972
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-13

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster, Nouvelle Vague, 1990
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Background: photograph of the actress Lili Taylor as Valerie Solanas superimposed over the head of Elvis Presley in the Andy Warhol 1963 painting "Triple Elvis". The Elvis prototype appears dressed like a cowboy in jeans, corduroy shirt, bandana necktie, and a holster at the hips, holding a gun and looking angrily and intently to the left of the viewer. Layered over this background is a strip of a repeating black-and-white photograph of Andy Warhol sitting with a woman in a restaurant, tinted bright red and bearing the inscription in white, "I SHOT ANDY WARHOL". In upper left is the inscription in red: "Du / hast / nur / eine / Chance / beruhmt / zu werden." Further inscription along bottom margin, horizontally, in red:"Lili Taylor Stephen Dorff Jared Harris", followed by credits in small blue type.

Poster, I Shot Andy Warhol, 1996–97
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-96

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cartoon-like, bright image: blue sky, green-skinned man with brown hair and sunglasses, wearing a blue shirt and yellow cowboy hat, holding a blue steering wheel and sitting in purple car seat. On his hat are two crouching police officers, and circling the hat is a helicopter seeking to land. At upper right, in magenta, is the title: "MISTRZ / KIEROWNICY / UCIEKA", surrounded by credits in smaller type.

Poster, Mistrz kierownicy ucieka (Smokey and the Bandit), 1978–79
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-17

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Black and white image of a film negative across entire poster, showing men carrying signs. In bottom left, a splatter of red with white text on top. In top right, text reads: "TEATR NOWY" (NEW THEATRE) in white and "w Poznaniu" (in Poznań, Poland) in black. Text across bottom reads "Oskarzony:/ CZERWIEC PIECDZIESIATSZESC" (Accused June Fifty-Six) in white.

Poster, Oskarżony: Czerwiec Pięćdziesiąt Sześć [Accused June...
photo-offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2009-20-24

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

The poster depicts the silhouette of a ship; above, in the sky, a woman’s head surrounded by blue clouds. Text in white gouache, upper right: ROMANCE RIDES / THE SEAS; in blue gouache, right: ESTHER / RALSTON; in orange gouache, lower margin: "OLD / IRONSIDES" / WITH / WALLACE BEERY & GEORGE BANCROFT.

Drawing, Old Ironside, 1928
brush and gouache on cardboard.
Gift of Judith and Steven Katten.
1986-118-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Poster advertising Richard O'Brien's, text in caps: THE/ ROCKY/ HORROR/SHOW. Opening at Empty Space 86. Features Frankenstein printed in greyscale. Outline, in flourescent yellow, of astronaut helmet with anentae, bra, and bare legs superimposed over figure. In flourescent pink appear, in a like fashion over the figure: painted lips and nails, beauty mark, and high heeled shoes.

Poster, The Rocky Horror Show, 1986
screenprint on white wove paper.
Gift of Art Chantry.
1995-69-42

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On yellow background, concentric shapes in red, violet, blue, and white, gradually assuming the form of the white central shape, which is a white men's suit on a hanger. Inscribed inside the "suit" is: "ALEC GUINESS DER MANN IM WEISSEN ANZUG". Further inscriptions at bottom: "Die Komodie einer sensationellen Erfindung (The Man in the White Suit) Mit Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker/ Regie: Alexander MacKendrick Pradikat wertvoll Regiepres Cannes 1956 Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner".

Poster, Der Mann im weißen Anzug (The Man in the White Suit), ca. 1956
screenprint on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-74

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, L'Initiation, 1970
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-97

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Black and white photographic image showing a huge motorcycle wheel in left foreground, and a smaller image of a young boy running (seen from behind), in the lower right corner. In order to promote traffic safety, the poster is designed so the vehicle tire threateningly appears to be about to run over the child.Text in red Akzidenz Grotesk type face at upper left: Automobil-Club der Schweiz (Automobile Club of Switzerland); below in white Akizidence Grotesk: " Schüzt das Kind!" Yellow ground across bottom edge.

Poster, Schützt das Kind! (Protect the Child!), 1953
offset lithograph on wove paper, lined.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
1999-46-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A blue man with presumably shrugging with raised hands straddles the yellow head of an older woman, who seems to be laughing. An orange and black background extends behind them. The film title is printed vertically on yellow columns on the left and right sides of the poster. Additional markings: lower left - "In the 2nd series, 16th part"; lower right - "Issued by Sovkino" with stamp.

Poster, Adventures of an Abandoned Child, 1926
lithograph on paper.
Gift of Merrill C. Berman in honor of Ellen Lupton.
2014-20-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Five men draped in Cuban flags are presented from lower left foreground and continue into the distance at the lower right. Each holds a flag created by a piece of red, white or blue film. Figures are set against a green ground. Title in black at upper left: SEMANA DE / CINE CUBANO / EN BOLIVIA. (Cuban Cinema Week in Bolivia)

Poster, Semana de Cine Cubano en Bolivia (Cuban Cinema Week in Bolivia), 1985
screenprint on wove paper.
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program....
1994-65-7

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, Nieustajace Wakacje [Permanent Vacation], © June 12, 1979
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

The image is divided in two major color fields: red, taking up three quarters of the area from the top, and white, taking up one quarter of the area from the bottom. The red "bleeds" into the white. Centered at quarter length from top is a high-contrast image of a man and woman, in black, white, magenta, and red. Inscriptions are in yellow letters: "Rainer W. Fassbinders / Die Zartlichkeit der Wolfe" on red, followed by credits in the white field.

Poster, Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe [The Tenderness of Wolves], 1973
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-15

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On white ground, an indigo sky with the word "EXODUS” at bottom. From behind "EXODUS" emerge flames, and above the text appear reaching arms bearing a machete, appearing to reach the midnight moon. Below, the credits: OTTO PREMINGER PRESENTS / PAUL NEWMAN - EVA MARIE SAINT / RALPH RICHARDSON - PETER LAWFORD / LEE J. COBB / SAL MINEO - JOHN DEREK / HUGH GRIFFITH - GREGORY RATOFF / JILL HAWORTH IN "EXODUS", with further credits in smaller type.

Poster, Exodus, 1961
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-16

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On white background, a white egg painted with black strokes to indicate hair, eyes, and mustache of Adolf Hitler. The lower jaw is "cracked" off and replaced with dangling human legs in red and blue. Followed by inscription at bottom center: "Sein Oder Nicht Sein / Lustspiel einer Tragodie Regie Ernst Lubitsch / (To Be or Not to Be / (Comedy a tragedy Directed by Ernst Lubitsch)) Pradikat besonders wertvoll Mit / Jack Benny Carole Lombard Felix Bressart Robert Stack / Sig Ruman u.v.a. Eine Ernst Lubitsch Produktion der / Romaine Film Verleih: Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner".

Poster, Sein oder Nichtsein (To Be or Not to Be), 1964
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-78

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On beige background, a plum gorilla with purple highlights and orange-and-yellow glowing eyes is diagonally arranged. In upper left, the inscriptions are, in brown: "japonski film fantastyczny / UCIECZKA KING KONGA / Rezyceria: Inoshira Honda / W rolach glownych: Rhodes Reason, Akira Takarada, / Linda Miller. Mie Hama / Produkja: Toho".

Poster, Ucieczka King Konga [King Kong Escapes], 1968
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-104

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

There is a woman dressed in red peering out from behind text that reads "POINTS ON A LINE" in black and white. Mixed in with the text are images of furniture including tables and chairs. Against the red of the woman's dress is a hand holding a squeegee. At the bootom left of the poster is small text that reads "POINTS ON A LINE A FILM BY SARAH MORRIS PARALAX 2010"

Poster, Points of a Line, a Film by Sarah Morris, © June 12, 1979
screenprint on paper.
Gift of M/M (Paris).
2015-4-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On black background, diagonally oriented, the pink hand of a woman with bright red fingernails, extending an index finger to a clutching infant's hand covered in hair and with sharp green fingernails. Below, the inscription in white hand-printed letters: "film produkcji americanskiej "Rosemary's Baby" / DZIECKO ROSEMARY" and followed by further credits in smaller type.

Poster, Dziecko Rosemary [Rosemary's Baby], 1984
offset lithograph.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-20

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On a scarlet-red field, is the image of four women's legs in black stockings and high heels, arranged in a Swastika, with a face of a heavily made-up screaming androgynous character in the center. The inscriptions are: on the black strip at the top, in white- "KABARET". On the red main field: at left- "Producja: Feurer and Martin", at right-"Amerycanski musical filmowy / nagrodzony 7 Oscarami", and at center- "Rezyseria / BOB FOSSE / W glownych rolach / LIZA MINELLI / Michael York / Joel Grey".

Poster, Kabaret, 1973
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-100

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Poster, Zbieg z Alcatraz [Point Blank]

Poster, Zbieg z Alcatraz [Point Blank]
offset lithograph on wove paper, mounted on linen.
2010-21-101

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

On crème background, a midnight-blue toned black-and-white photograph of a person's head in a wide-brimmed cowboy, the lips accentuated in lipstick-red. Starting top center, the inscriptions: "DUSTIN HOFFMAN / w filmie amerykanskim nagroozonym OSKAREM / NOCNY KOWBOJ / rezyseria: / JOHN SCHLESINGER / w pozostalych rolach: / john voight, sylvia miles, / brenda vaccaro". And at lower left: "produkcia: jerome hellman / -- united artists".

Poster, Nocny Kowboj [Midnight Cowboy], 1973
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-103

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Black and white image of a Japanese warrior (samurai) brandishing a sword. Text in light gray and dark gray Japanese characters arranged all around the warrior. Also, green and white text boxes with black japanese characters arranged diagonally, bottom right.

Poster, Chambara, 1972
offset lithography, screenprint on paper.
Gift of Koga Hirano.
1995-104-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Strips of overlapping images create a repitition of "los angeles". Underneath the repeating los angeles reads "LOS ANGELES A FILM BY SARAH MORRIS PARALAX 2004". Behind the text is a view of a bend in the road overlooking a city, presumably Los Angeles. To the left of the text are plants.

Poster, Los Angeles, a Film by Sarah Morris, 2005
screenprint on paper.
Gift of M/M (Paris).
2015-4-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Over black background, vertically-oriented running strips of digital data in neon green blanket the space like rain. Center along the vertical axis, three inscriptions appear: (1)"FREE YOUR MIND"; (2)"05.15"; (3)"www.thematrix.com"; followed by three logos of the sponsoring companies, arranged horizontally along the bottom margin.

Poster, Teaser for The Matrix Reloaded
engraving on holographic foil laid down on heavy white wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-95

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On white background:
(1)An inscription at top: "a sezession DER SCHATTEN / Atlas Film presentiert: Clen (Polen 1956) Ein Film von Jerzy Kawalerowicz mit Zygmunt Kestowicz, / Adolf Chronicki / Ein Exklusiv-Programm weltbekannter Filme. Festival-Sieger, umstrittene Filme, beruhmte Aussenseiter und klassische Meisterwerke werden erstmals in deutschen Filmtheatern volgerstellt".
(2)An image: a 3 x 3 grid, the same image of a inkblot-like human head is repeated with minor alteration in details: in certain sections of the grid, a Nazi swastika, the numbers O5, a stamp with a royal eagle, black dots, black arrow, while some of the heads have cut-out ears, eye, or mouth.

Poster, Cien [Shadow], 1966
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-12

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On white background, a painted sketch of a man's German military Imperial uniform, with the actual soldier supposedly inside a grey shadow. A print of two clasped hands covers the area where the mouth would be. Inscription is divided in two columns, at left and at right of the central uniform-figure. At left, starting at top: "mit: Jean Gabin Erich von Stroheim Pierre Fresnay Dita Parlo / Verleih: Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner / Pradikat Besonders Wertvoll". At right, starting at top: "Die Grosse Illusion / Jean Renoir Buch and Dialoge: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir Kamera: Christian Matras Musik: Joseph Kosma Produktion: R.A.C. Film Paris".

Poster, Die Grosse Illusion, 1960
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-75

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster advertising the ASUW's Major Film Series. Portion of a film reel printed on top half of poster, in brown, featuring three frames of young man with mouth agape, screaming. Small circular inserts appear at the bottom right of each frame: Col. Tim McCoy, a winged figure, and James Dean. Schedule of events occupies bottom half of the poster.

Poster, Films/Movies
lithograph on white wove paper.
Gift of Art Chantry.
1995-69-52

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.